Student Senate Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting 
30th of January 2008

I.	Executive Committee meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Secretary Piel at 9:00 PM
a.	Absent from the meeting were members: President Szewczyk, Communications Director Hanks
II.	Executive Reports
a.	Secretary: No report.
b.	Treasurer: Buying the gavel tomorrow, waiting for updated budgets from committees
c.	President: No report.
III.	Auxiliary Reports
a.	Faculty Advisor: We have a new advisor! Woo! Be nice because if you break her there is no warranty. Faculty is talking about the consulting report. Truman is working to change the university’s image to perspective students. Talk to faculty and friends about it. Make sure students representatives are on all of the “little” committees. Faculty are also talking about “Focus the Nation”. Need to make Senate’s materials easily accessible and informative. 
b.	Staff Advisor: Laura is from Multicultural Affairs. Her second year at Truman. Originally from North Carolina. 
c.	BOG: 
d.	Speaker: 
IV.	Committee Reports
a.	Academic Affairs: Seriously thinking of getting t-shirts “Academic Affairs: The first step is admitting you have a problem.” Resurrect the “Recycling is Sexy” t-shirt for Earth Week. Course Syllabi article in the Index tomorrow. Next week there will be an article about Topical WACT. Meeting with professor Wriggle next month to get a better idea about summer registration and how it will play in. Submit a professor for the research award program will be up and running on the website soon. Putting new study abroad handbook up on the website. Would like to publish students’ study abroad journals for other students to view. Perhaps inviting students studying abroad to update a blog accessible through the study abroad and Truman’s website. Trying to get more involved with the Student Research Conference to make it easier and more accessible to students. Topic for University Conference Day is up in the air still. How can campus be more fun? Students should be involved in the brainstorming and decision making. Possibly start with student forums or a “satisfaction conference”. 
b.	External Affairs: Final proofing on Storm the Capitol publications (handouts for senators). Making a floor plan of the capitol. People are already separated into groups. Sujit has agreed to be the chaperone. Chris Miller spoke to Casey about the textbook transparency bill and is looking into more information. It has been filed. Curious to see how many maybes show up (25 are definitely coming). EA is working on getting started with the Squirrelfest/Kirksville on the Quad day. Also working on the online rental database. 
c.  Student Affairs: The Index will have an article about the Safe Rides program tomorrow. Res Life/RHA Roundtable will be February 18th. Media Roundtable March 17th. Greek Roundtable March 31st. All should be around 7 pm. Diversity Banquet on April 14th. All the hall senates are planning an all-hall competition. Working on getting a student rep on the Dobson Renovation Committee.
d. Campus Diversity: 
      e. Campus Environment: Focus the Nation tomorrow 9-3 in SUB check it out 			at earth.truman.edu. The Index will be reporting on the President’s 				Climate Commitment tomorrow. Please be informed on sustainability 			statements. Waiting on feedback from other schools. Working on 				sustainability guide which will be finished by Earth Week. Trying to 			formulate a survey about what students think is important about campus 			and the environment. Passed a resolution last semester giving the Bike Co-			op $3,000 for transition costs. Sunday there will be a motion about 				insurance costs. The work shop will be opened the first week of March. 			Body needs to define what a sustainable initiative is and whether we will 			support them for an undefined amount of time. Wants to write a resolution 		stating 	the bike co-op will receive a certain amount of money during its 			review 	period. 
f. Technology:
V.	General Reports
a.	Ethics Justice: 
b.	Constitutional Review: 
c.	Scholarship:
d.	EOY: 
e.	SOC: 	
f.	Communications: 	
g.	Legislative Director:
h.	Historian:
i. Web Master: senate.truman.edu/blog is up and running. There are a lot of things it can be used for. Any questions, email Tom. All standing committees now have a blog. If the blog is a hit, maybe senate.truman.edu will be a straight shot to the blog. Yay for a functioning work in progress!                                                                                                 
VI.	Old Business
VII.      New Business
VIII.	Discussion
	A. Flanagan - Resolution to revise the process to receive a refund of the student governance fee.
		Wisa - Why is a resolution necessary? 
		Esfeld - First bullet point under ‘therefore be it resolved’ should be 	removed. 
		Alberts - Instead of saying you must meet with a senator it should say a 	senator will contact you. 
		Millburg - Likes that it states the refund is applied to the student’s account.
		Esfeld - Cut “at the end of each semester” in the ‘directs that section’
		Wiley - The current policy states that students cannot be involved in 	Senate after getting a refund. What does the new policy do?
		Flanagan - It would stay the same. 
		Wiley - Then it becomes a regressive policy. People who are requesting 	their funds back should be involved to make changes.
		Esfeld - This should be the final resort for students.
		Alberts - It used to state that if a member of the government  requested 	their fee back they had submitted their resignation from the student 	government.
		Flanagan - Should it be a blanket statement that you shouldn’t be allowed 	to attend student funded events or just not allowed to be a part of the 	body?
		Wiley - Second bullet point says they will meet with a senator. Will they 	have to come to a meeting?
		Flanagan - It would be a one on one meeting. 
		Alberts - The whole thing is a ‘directs’ statement. There really isn’t a 	resolved section. We could resolve that students meet with a senator and 	we direct that a senator contacts the students. 
IX.	Announcement
	A. There will be an article in the Index tomorrow about the Budget Review Committee and OAF. 
Meeting adjourned at 10:

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Libby Piel on the 10th of January 2007.